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Monday, April 17, 2017

Take Heed Lest You Fall

Take Heed Lest You Fall

Rev. John Evangelist Zollner, 1884

"He that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall."

These words, with which St. Paul exhorts us to caution, are very important,

(a) For those who are yet in the state of innocence, that is, for those
who never yet in their life have committed a mortal sin, and
consequently possess yet their baptismal innocence. When you have lost
an earthly good, as health, the favor of an exalted personage, honor and
reputation, a house or a farm, it is possible for you to repair the
loss by renewed energy and industry and by correcting former errors and
avoiding former mistakes, but if you have lost innocence, no possibility
is given you to recover it again. He who by a mortal sin has lost
innocence, may by true penance again recover sanctifying grace; he can
save his soul from perdition, and go to heaven, but innocence remains
lost forever. Innocence once lost is lost forever. Adam and Eve are in
heaven; Peter and Paul are in heaven; Mary Magdalen and Mary of Egypt
are in heaven; but we find them not among the Innocents, but among the
Penitents; how much penance soever they may have done for their sins,
they could never recover innocence.
Now if you take good
and even the best care of your eyes, because you know that if you should
lose them you could never recover them, should you not pay still
greater attention to your innocence that you may not lose it? Should you
not shun with the greatest care those places, amusements, and persons
that are dangerous to your innocence? Parents, ought you not to use all
possible diligence in order to preserve the innocence of your children?
When innocence is lost by mortal sin, it is to be feared that the first
sin will draw many other sins after it, and that the end will be final
impenitence and eternal perdition. Think of Judas the traitor. He was a
thief, as the Gospel says. Was he so before he became an Apostle? No,
certainly not, but the donations of the pious, which passed through his
hands, excited his avarice and made him a thief. And, behold! with the
first theft his fate was decided, he stole as often as he could, and
finally his avarice made him sell his Lord and Master for thirty pieces
of silver; and then despairing, he hanged himself. If Judas had not
committed the first sin, he would have been saved: but having committed
the first sin, he fell deeper and deeper, and his end was eternal
perdition. How wrong then are those frivolous people who say: "Once is
no custom." How? once should be no custom, when one mortal sin deprives
man of his innocence forever, and is frequently the first link of an
interminable chain of sins that leads to eternal damnation!

(b) For penitents. The penitent is exposed to still greater dangers of
salvation than the innocent man. The devil pursues him with a particular
envy, and endeavors to bring him again into his power, hence we read in
the Gospel, that he takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than
himself, in order to make the penitent who has become lukewarm relapse,
and to take possession of his heart. The world allures him and uses
stratagem, flattery, promise, mockery and even violence, in order to win
him back, as, v. g., we know of St. Paul, whom the Jews, because he had
left them and embraced the Christian religion, hated most bitterly, and
calumniated and persecuted in every possible way. His own evil
concupiscence prepares for the penitent many hard struggles, for it
resembles a spoiled child which, because its will is not done as
formerly, behaves unmannerly, is noisy and cries, and can be silenced
with only great difficulty.

(c) For those, finally, who have already served God long, and have made
great progress on the way of virtue. No man, though he may have attained
the highest degree of sanctity, is proof against a fall; he may sin,
sin grievously and perish. Solomon was the wisest king, and not only
served God faithfully himself, but his solicitude was such that his
people adhered to God and walked in the way of his commandments. But,
behold! this pious and enlightened king in his mature years and old age
became faithless to God, and defiled himself with all the abominations
of idolatry. James, surnamed the Penitent, who lived in the sixth
century of the Christian era, had led so holy a life in the desert for
forty years that God glorified him with miracles. But he met a woman,
not with a bad intention, but to be a guide to her on the way of
salvation. What happened? By little and little a sinful desire began to
burn in him, which, because he did not immediately avoid the occasion,
made him sin grievously with her, and in order to keep his vice secret,
kill the accomplice of his crime. Despair took hold of him after the
commission of these two crimes, and he was on the way to leave the
desert, in order to plunge himself into all vices, to die and perish
eternally. But he who wills not the death of the sinner, but that he be
converted and live, had compassion on him; he was met by a hermit who
raised his fallen spirits and induced him to return into the desert.
There he did penance for ten years, up to his death, and thus saved his
soul from everlasting ruin, (28 Jan.)

Whoever you may be,
innocent, penitent, or even great Saints, you must be on your guard and
remember the words of the Apostle: "He that thinketh himself to stand,
let him take heed lest he fall."

2. "Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is
faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you
are able; but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able
to bear it." With the words: "Let no temptation take hold of you, but
such as is human," the Apostle means to say, that if we are tempted, we
should not allow ourselves to be captivated by the temptation so as to
sin, that the temptation may remain human, for says St. Anselin: "It is
angelic to have no temptation at all; but human to have temptations and
overcome them." The temptation is human if it is overcome. We can
overcome every temptation, be it ever so lasting and vehement, for God
is faithful, he will keep His word, and as He has promised, will assist
us with His grace, so that if we have a good will and do what is
required on our part for the overcoming of the temptation, we can
persevere in good.

(a) That God gives to all men the grace necessary to overcome
temptations is evident from this, that he wills all men to be saved. Now
since no one of himself could overcome all temptations, especially the
more vehement ones, and consequently not work out his salvation, it is
evident that God gives the grace necessary for the overcoming of
temptations. St. Paul had violent temptations to encounter; he therefore
asked the Lord to deliver him from them. But the Lord replied: "My
grace is sufficient for thee."--II. Cor. 12: 7-9. The Apostle, full of
courage and confidence, elsewhere says: " I can do all things in him who
strengtheneth nie." He also exhorts us to this confidence, in the
words: " Let us go with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy and find grace in seasonable aid."--Heb. 4: 16. It is
therefore blasphemy for any one to say: I could not help it; I could not
resist the temptation. I was obliged to sin, for the necessary grace
was wanting to me.

(b) But that the grace of God may prove effectual, we must make good use
of it, and do what is required on our part for the overcoming of all
temptations; we must especially watch and pray, according to the words
of Jesus: "Watch ye and pray, that you enter not into temptation. The
spirit, indeed, is willing, but the flesh is weak."--Matt. 26: 41. We
must watch; that is, we must pay attention to that which takes place in
our heart, and fight against and suppress all sinful thoughts and
desires at their first motion; we must watch over our senses, tame and
mortify them, especially our eyes; we must be attentive to what takes
place about us, to the people with whom we have intercourse, to the
places in which we are or into which we come, and to the pleasures we
enjoy, and must carefully shun what is to us a proximate occasion of
sin.

We must pray; for
though God gives us the first grace without prayer, all subsequent
graces necessary for salvation depend on prayer. Without fervent and
persevering prayer we shall not be able to overcome all temptations.
"Which of the just," says St. Chrysostom, "has ever fought without
prayer? Moses prays, and overcomes; he quits prayer and is overcome."
Let a Christian learn that prayer is a duty, let him learn whence his
victory and defeat come in the spiritual combat. Yes, let him know that
he must pray more frequently than Moses, because the enemy with whom he
must wrestle is far more dangerous, and because he fights for himself,
and not for others.

PERORATION

Follow the admonitions
which the Apostle gives you in the Epistle of this day. Take warning
from the Israelites in the desert, whom God each time visited with
punishments, when they sinned against him. and guard against injustice
and sin. Shun levity and proud self-confidence, and work out your
salvation with fear and trembling, for as long as you walk in this
mortal body, you will be surrounded by various dangers to salvation; you
may sin any moment and lose God's grace. Be always humble of heart, for
humility alone goes securely, and if ever any man may hope with joyful
confidence that God will protect and conduct him to salvation it is the
Christian that is profoundly humble. Watch and pray, that you may not
enter into temptation, for watchfulness and prayer are the only weapons
which will enable you to gain the victory over all the enemies of your
salvation, and to take heaven by violence. Amen

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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Saint Athanasius

"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."